u/Sausage_fingies

I'm a decent pianist, but very much in the context of classical pedagogy. I'm the bass trombonist for my jazz band usually but the pianist is sick so my director asked me to sub in for her for our performance this weekend. It's just backgrounds and rhythm section, but nevertheless I'm quite unfamiliar with it.

Any tips to not totally suck in a short amount of time?

I'm putting the final touches on a Beethoven Sonata right now for performance, and it made me realize just how much closer to Beethoven I feel after having actually learned his music. I don't tend to listen to much Beethoven and I'm not super familiar with his ouvre, but listening to his other works feels much different now, I feel like I understand it more and understand *him* more despite the fact that we didn't even live in the same era.

I've felt this way with most every composer of the music I've learned. It truly feels like reading diary entries in a way, like I'm getting this insight into their inner machinations that I didn't have before.

Tuba/trombone player here, planning on learning trumpet in the nearish future. I've only ever squeaked around on friend's trumpets, I have yet to seriously practice it, and the difference in embouchure between tuba and trumpet is rather massive lol. Trumpet mouthpiece is tiny! Would appreciate any words of advice on forming a good foundational embouchure for this instrument

I've been watching videos of Ray Chen in interviews and from his YouTube channel and I find it so interesting how he has two entirely separate accents. When he's talking to Brett and Eddy from two set violin for instance, he'll adopt an Australian accent that matches theirs. in interviews he tends to have an American accent. Most of his youtube videos have his American accent but then sometimes an ad read will have his Australian accent. It's just so interesting to me. I've never heard of anyone else who has two entirely distinct accents, neither of which synthetic, and who can code switch between them so easily.